Fringe fabric



(No Model.)

W. W. JACOBS.

FRINGE FABRIC.

No. 399,332. Patented Mar. 12, 1889.

I 4. ill cL UNTTED STATES PATENT OEEtcE.

\VALDEMAR IV. JACOBS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

FRINGE FABRIC.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 399,332, dated March 12, 1889.

Application filed August 13, 1888.

T0 Ml whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, \YALDEMA I \V. .IACoBs, a citizen of the lnited States of America, residing at Chicago, in the county of (look and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fringe Fabrics, of which the following is a specification, ref- Serial No. 282,567. (No specimens.)

erence being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

Heretofore tassels for fringes had to be wrapped or bound. by hand, and had to be connected to the gimp or heading also by hand, all of which was a slow and tedious manipulation, and it is the object of this my invention to produce a fringe fabric made cntirely in a loom by the ordinary process of weaving;

and with this objectin view my invention eonsislsof the article of manufacture hereinafterdescribed and specifically claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents the manner of weaving the gimp or heading of the fringe and the tassels attached i thereto simultaneously during the same op eration, and Fig. 2 shows the manner of binding in a double row of tassels i ndependently of the gimp, while Fig. 3 shows a section of a tassel at its wrapping or binding point, showing the warp-threads that form the shed for receiving and binding it.

Corresponding letters of reference in the several figures of the drawings designate like parts.

The parts and operation of a hand-loom such as used for this manufacture being well known, andv this invention having reference only to the arranging of the warps for accomplishin g the desired ob j ect, the several figures of the drawings are deemed to be suliiciently explicit without showing the loom itself or any one of: its operating elements.

In Fig. l, A denotes the gimp or heading, which naturally forms apart of fringe of most every description, and or denotes the warp for weaving such gimp, which in the usual manner is passed through the healds of the harness for shedding. Parallel with this warp a for gimp A and the required distance apart therefrom is drawn an additional warp, 1 10 act as the binder for each individual tassel, which arp B is passed through the healds of a separate harness, each of the two harnesses to be operated by independent pedals in the usual manner.

represents the combined strands which form the substance or body of the tassel.

The cord that constitutes the hanger or loop (Z of the tassel is placed with one end in the shed of the warp a, to be caught and held therein, is then passed around the combined strands C, and then its other end is passed upward, and is also inserted into the shed of warp a, so as to form part of the weft in weaving the gimp. The weft I) being laid into warp B sufficiently often to form a strong tie for one side of the tassel-neck, the combined strands C, doubled over the hanger-cord (Z, are passed through the shed of such warp B, which crosses over it, and the weft Z1 is then laid in on the opposite side of the tassel-neck and is beaten up by the lay or batten of the 100111 in the usual manner. After afringe has thus been made in the loom the combined strands C are severed intermediate of the tassel-heads with a pair of scissors, and the warp B is cut away between the weft that forms the binding of each tassel. Thus a perfect tassel, E, is nrmluced, suspended from the upper heading or gimp and bound by weaving in the most substantial manner, abolishing the use of the ordinary now well-known process of wrapping and bindin by hand.

For making tassels indepemlcntly of the gimp or heading, which i s to be secured thereto afterward for making the fringe by inserting the ends of their loops or hangers (Z into the shed of the gi1np-warp,I draw through the loom two warps, B and B a proper distance apart and parallel with each other, and the combined strands C", I pass zigzag first t-h rough the shed of one and then. through the shed of the other warp, binding each by the weft in the same manner as described above, and around that portion of the combined strands C which is doubled up for forming the head of the tassel I pass the loop-cord d, previously to binding the tassel in warp IE or I3 all as shown by Fig. 2. After thus completed in the loom 1he strands C are cut centrally between the warps 1:3 and B indicated by dotted lines, and these warps B B are also cut away between the binding-wefts of each two tassels.

hat I claim is tassels and fastened at each side thereof by The improved fringe fabric which consists, weft-threads in the ordinary manner. ro substantially as described, of the heading or In testimony whereof I affix my signature in gimp A, the hanger-loops secured thereto, and presence of two Witnesses. the tassels consisting of the combined yarn- IVALDEMAR' \V. JACOBS. strands passing through and looped around lVitnesses: the hanger-loops and bound just below said \VILLIAM H. LOTZ,

loops by Warp-threads passing around the OTTO LUBKERT. 

